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(Chhara), Dakxinkumar Bajrange
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Abatemarco, Gina
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Abraham, Shirley
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Agatha, Diane
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Aiano, Eluned Zoe
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Akafou, Joël
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Al Hafez, Maisa
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Alvarez, Juan Sebastián
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Alvarez, Patricia
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Anthropological Institute, Royal
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Arcilla, Roel
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Arif-Bashir, Abeera
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Aston, Judith
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Athias, Renato
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August, Ramona
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Awoyinka, Siji
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Aydin, Yunus Emre
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BBC / Swan Films, RAI /
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Bahule, Andre
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Bakar Sidibé, Abou
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Balikci, Anna
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Ballester, Julian
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Barber, Maddi
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Baril Gaudet, Sarah
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Barone, Enrico
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Basu, Prantik
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Bell, Hatty
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Bell, Otto
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Berman, Alexandre
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Bhagat, Simit
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Biella, Peter
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Blachnicka-Ciacek, Dominika
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Bona, Stefania
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Bonifacio, Valentina
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Borecký, Pavel
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Boswall, Karen
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Boudreault-Fournier, Alexandrine
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Boyce, Paul
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Bragard, Magali
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Brewer, Teri
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Brečević, Geska Helena
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Brečević, Robert
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Bromhead, Toni de
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Brossmann, Jakob
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Brylla, Catalin
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Burcak, Lidija
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Bureau, Martin
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Buthpitiya, Vindhya
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Cabezas Pino, Angélica
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Cameron, Al
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Campus, Greca
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Canals, Roger
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Carlyle, Angus
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Carpenter, Sue
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Carrillo Sánchez, María Fernanda
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Cartelli, Philip
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Carver, Gavin
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Chavah, Arjun
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Chong, Zhang
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Colson, Laurie
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Cooper, Timothy
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Costa, Vince
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Dabo, Ansomane
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Dam Bracia, Lillian
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Delgado San Ginés, David
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Devaraj, Rebecca
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Dewey, Myron
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Dhanraj, Deepa
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Diamanti, Eleonora
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Diamantis, Constantinos
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Doren, Oinam
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Dost, Jainendra
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Edenshaw, Gwaai
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Enjolras, Séverine
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FILM FESTIVAL, RAI
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Fairbanks, Charles
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Favero, Paolo
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Fedde, R.A.
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Fernández Mouján, Alejandro
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Fernández, Luciano Pérez
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Ferreira, Daniele
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Figueroa, David
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Fijn, Natasha
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Film Festival, RAI
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Fleifel, Mahdi
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Flores, Carlos
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Foglio, Omar
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Folegatti, Luiza
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Fox, Jason
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Fox, Josh
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Frankenstein, Ellen
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Fumanti, Mattia
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Gama, Antonia
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Girmus, Dan
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Goddinho, Leandro
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Gomes, Márcio
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Grabowska, Malwa
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Grassilli, Mariagiulia
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Gruber, Martin
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Grunvald, Vitor
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Grégoire, Charlotte
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Gulati, Shilpi
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Gumnit, Ruth
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Guzman, Elena
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HERROU, Adeline
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Habibi, Elaheh
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Haddad, Abeer Zeibak
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Hahonou, Eric Komlavi
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Haig-Brown, Helen
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Hantson, Louise
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Hassanwalia, Shabani
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Henley, Paul
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Henry, Rosita
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Hesmondhalgh, Jacob
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Hick, Alexander
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Hikiji, Rose Satiko
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Holtedahl, Lisbet
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Huguet, Benjamin
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Høgel, Arine Kirstein
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Igwe, Onyeka
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Indjai, Braima
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Jan Gollob, Tino Glimmann
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Jaoul, Nicolas
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Koto, Erik
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Kuka, Hajooj
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Kuzhur, Renjith
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Lacerda, Rodrigo
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Lai, Miasarah
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Lambert, Roseline
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Lapper, Ellen
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Lau, Lasse
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Le Dauphin, Axelle
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Li, He Zi Jian
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Li, Wenfei
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Liu, Xiangchen
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Long, Zheng
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Lunch, Nick
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Lutkehaus, Nancy
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Luz, Ana Luísa
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MAKEPEACE, ANNE
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MacClancy, Jeremy
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Madheshiya, Amit
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Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
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Magoko, Beryl
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Maingard, Jacqueline
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Malara, Diego Maria
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Maleney, Clair
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Marchand, Trevor H. J.
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Marinho de Sousa, Liliana
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Marrero-Guillamón, Isaac
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Marsh, Sophie
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McCrum, Rachel
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McLarnon, Kate
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McNamara, Robert
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Mendel, Paulo
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Mestroni, Simone
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Metz, Janus
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Mills-Affif, Edouard
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Mirabella, Rita
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Mitjáns, Fernando
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Muratsu, Ran
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Murray, Christopher
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Myhre, Knut Chr. Myhre
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Nayak, Saranya
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Ndisi-Herrmann, Philippa
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Neal, Sky
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Niglas, Liivo
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Norris, Craig
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Norton, Barley
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Nørgaard Munk, Emil
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Oliveras de Ita, Daniel
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Orderson, Kurt
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Orr Urtreger, Gil
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Owles, Ed
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P. A. Cooper, Timothy
2
Panay, Simon
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Panizza, Tiziana
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Parietti, Caroline
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Peiu, Toma
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Perovic, Vladimir
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Pestarino, Julieta
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Petré, Robin
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Piasta, Piotr
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Piccini, Angela
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Pilvet, Kristiina
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Piria, Elisa
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Plambech, Sine
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Plouffe, Simon
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Pollet, Olivier
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Poltorak, Mike
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Pomerance, Erica
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Ponson, Cyprien
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Ponte, Ines
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Prins, Janine
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Radhakrishnan, Shweta
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Rappoport, Dana
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Rashid, Azra
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Rees, Lowri
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Robert Morales, Matteo
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Rodriguez, Paola
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Rosenlund Byriel, Maja
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Rowlinson, Carl
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Roy, Sumira
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Saghari, Niyaz
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Saltalippi, Matteo
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Sarabi, Abtin
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Saraiva, Chico
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Sariyildiz, Özlem
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Sarmiento, Alvaro
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Sarmiento, Diego
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Sartori, Caterina
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Sautchuk, Carlos
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Scalisi, Francesca
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Schiltz, Anne
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Seaman, Gary
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Seidel, Frank
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Sen, Priya
1
Sharma, Aparna
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Shrish, Asmita
1
Siebert, Moritz
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Siegel, Sarita
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Singer, Andre
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Singer, André
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Snigirev, Yury
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Sousa, Joana
1
Speroni, Marco
1
Spinetti, Federico
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Spione, James
1
Stehlikova, Tereza
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Stewart, Michael
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Storaas, Frode
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Su, Yan Chun
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Taylor, Jaime
1
Teeter, Wendy
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Tender, Priit
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Tibet, Eda Elif
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Tilche, Alice
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Time, Justin
1
Toda, Hikaru
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Tolange, Deepak
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Torresan, Angela
2
Tumino, Giuseppe
1
Turner, Shannon
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Vail, Pegi
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Vakhrushev, Aleksei
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Varejão, Cláudia
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Vavrova, Daniela
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Wagner, Estephan
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WeOwnTV,
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Westmoreland, Mark
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Wickwire, Maren
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Wilkinson, Marko Ray
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Wright, Chris
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Wright, Evie
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Wu, Qiao
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Wu, Qihui
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Wyatt, Olivia
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Yildirim, S. Buse
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Yin, Luojunnan
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Yuchuan, Jia
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Zaki, Iris
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Zauad, Zaino
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Zhang, MengHua
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Zirion, Antonio
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Ziwei, Meng
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Zurné, Lise
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de Bromhead, Toni
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van de Port, Mattijs
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Algeria
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Australia
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Austria
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Belgium
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Brazil
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Canada
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Colombia
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Czech Republic
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Ethiopia
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Guinea-Bissau
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Hungary
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India
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Iran
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Israel
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Italy
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Japan
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Kenya
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Kosovo
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Mali
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Mexico
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Mongolia
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Montenegro
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Nepal
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Netherlands
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Niger
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Nigeria
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Paraguay
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Peru
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Serbia
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Thailand
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Turkey
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Uganda
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2017
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2019
122
2021
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2023
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Decolonising the Archive
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Global Racialisations
2
Intangible Culture
7
Lifetime Achievement
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Main Competition
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Material Culture
6
Music Docs
5
RAI Basil Wright
29
Shorts
22
Special Interest
11
Student
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18 Feet
2015
77
'
Directed by
Renjith Kuzhur
.
Karinthalakoottam is an indigenous band that propagates the music of soul to connect people with a sense of historic resolution. 18 feet symbolizes the holy distance dalits, the downtrodden, were to
The 18-Year-Old Assembly Line
2016
30
'
Directed by
Luojunnan Yin
.
We happened to make friends with this group of factory workers in the "post-90s" generation while we were working on another projects. We were quite fascinated by many things that we
ABU
2017
80
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Arshad Khan
.
Arshad always knew he was different. Soon after emigrating from Pakistan to Canada with his family, Arshad realized he was gay. With Abu, Arshad tells his own story self discovery at a cultural
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock
2017
89
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Josh Fox
James Spione
Myron Dewey
.
The native-led resistance to the construction of a pipeline across the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota, captured the world’s attention. Awake tells the story of the defiant Water
About Love on a Small Island
2018
26
'
Directed by
Elaheh Habibi
.
The film About Love on a Small Island is a participatory and reflexive ethnographic film exploring the meaning of love among a Sunni Muslim community in an Iranian village on Qeshm Island. Following
After Prayers
2018
61
'
Directed by
Simone Mestroni
.
The story of Kashmir's conflict narrated through various life stories.
After the Silence
2018
28
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Natalie Cubides-Brady
.
An affecting portrait of a small town on the Magdalena River in Colombia during Day of the Dead, exploring the spiritual impact of the forced disappearances that became endemic during the nation’s
Ama-san
2016
113
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Cláudia Varejão
.
A dive, the noon sunlight cuts through the water. The air in both lungs will have to be enough to rip the abalone from the rocks at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With no aid from air tanks or any
Amazonimations
2018
7
'
Shorts
Directed by
Camilla Morelli
Sophie Marsh
.
A compilation of three animated films written, voiced and illustrated by the Matses people of the Amazon rainforest, on the Peru-Brazil frontier. Made in collaboration with an indigenous artist, a
Andrè Singer in conversation
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Talks
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Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
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Talks
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Anti-Racist Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
'
Talks
Convened by
Elena Guzman
Miasarah Lai
.
This workshop offers fundamental strategies for anti-racist documentary storytelling from concept to production. The need for anti-racist filmmaking has reverberated throughout the film industry with
The Archipelago
2015
41
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Benjamin Huguet
.
The Faroe Islands: a remote group of islands, battered by the ever-changing weather patterns of the North Atlantic. For centuries, the Faroese have lived proudly off the natural resources that
Archival resources and Ethnographic Film
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Workshop
Convened by
Caterina Sartori
.
This session brings together archivists and professionals who are involved in the preservation, cataloguing and digitisation of archival film and photographic material; and artists and ethnographers
The Art Of Moving
2016
88
'
Directed by
Liliana Marinho de Sousa
.
Daya Al-Taseh, a video activist group made up of 4 Syrian friends, are producing anti-ISIS satirical videos in Gaziantep, a city in south-eastern Turkey. Despite being threatened, the group doesn’t
The Art of Andrew Omoding
2016
9
'
Directed by
Trevor H. J. Marchand
.
Andrew Omoding is a Ugandan-British artist. Andrew enters into partnership with his materials, allowing their sensible properties to guide his exploratory gestures and fingerwork. In stitching and
Artists’ Films and Ethnography
'
Workshop
Convened by
Marko Ray Wilkinson
Al Cameron
Barbara Knorpp
.
Practitioners of ethnography and art have crossed paths multiple times in the 20th and 21st centuries - sometimes viewing each other with enthusiasm, sometimes suspicion. This programme consists
Authors at the Festival & Reception
'
Gala event
Convened by
Paul Henley
.
A number of authors attending the Festival will present their books in the course of a Drinks Reception to which all Festival pass holders are cordially invited. Copies of the books will also be
Awards Ceremony
120
'
Gala event
Convened by
Royal Anthropological Institute
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Join us to close the 16th RAI Film Festival as we announce the winners of this year's prizes and awards.
BE' JAM BE the never ending song
2017
85
'
Directed by
Cyprien Ponson
Caroline Parietti
.
In Sarawak (Borneo), “the ones who live upstream” are the first affected by deforestation. The Penan, (ex) nomadic hunters, must figure out how to go on living when one’s entire world is being
BROKEN SKIN
2018
24
'
Directed by
Lidija Burcak
.
An emotionally charged poetic encounter between the filmmaker and other psoriasis sufferers, exploring skin as a metaphor of strength, belief, belonging and alienation.
Ballad for Syria
2017
49
'
Directed by
Eda Elif Tibet
Maisa Al Hafez
.
A musical documentary about Maisa Alhafez, a musician and a Syrian refugee living in Istanbul. Separated from many of her loved ones, she builds a multicultural community: “The Oriental Istanbul Mosaic Choir”.
Bath People
2015
60
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Stefania Bona
Francesca Scalisi
.
A small red-brick building carrying a big neon sign: "bagni". This is the last public baths in a city where everybody can take a shower in their own home. It is a microcosm of people's
Batusha's House
2016
70
'
Directed by
Tino Glimmann Jan Gollob
.
KADRI BATUSHA has been building his tremendous house in the outskirts of Prishtina (Kosovo) for 15 years without any plans or permits. The architecture of this enormous building, with its towers,
Beats of the Antonov
2014
68
'
Global Racialisations
Directed by
Hajooj Kuka
.
Sudan has been in an almost constant state of civil war since it achieved independence in 1956, and it split into a pair of sovereign states in 2011. On the border between the two, Russian-made
Between Islam and the Sacred Forest
2017
52
'
Directed by
Martin Gruber
Frank Seidel
.
An investigation into the rituals in a small village on the coast of Guinea, West Africa to commemorate a recently deceased woman (a Muslim celebration of the 40th day after death conducted by a
Between Jirina and Anna
2015
5
'
Directed by
Tereza Stehlikova
.
My grandmother Jirina explains the history of a traditional costume that her own mother made. As Jirina's great granddaughter Anna tries the dress on, assisted by her own mother and grandmother, the
Beyond Life - Cooling and Cleansing, in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
2018
25
'
Directed by
Frode Storaas
Knut Chr. Myhre Myhre
.
On the rural slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a young man takes his own life, leaving a wife and small children behind. On the third day after his burial, a ceremony is conducted to cool and cleanse the
Beyond observation
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Talks
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Beyond observation: A history of authorship in ethnographic film. A discussion with Paul Henley. More than just introducing the best in new ethnographic films, the RAI FILM Festival also aims to take
Biographies of Struggle
2015
43
'
Directed by
Matteo Saltalippi
Greca Campus
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Biographies of Struggle is a documentary analysing the longest steelworkers' strike in Italy since the last wave of labour unrest in the 80s. The Terni ThyssenKrupp factory threatened by 550 job cuts
Bonfires
2017
6
'
Shorts
Directed by
Martin Bureau
.
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To
The Book of the Sea
2018
85
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Aleksei Vakhrushev
.
An intimate look inside day-to-day life on the frozen fringe of the Bering Strait in Russia, home to the Inuit and Chukchi. We follow community leader Alexei, his wife Galya (a nurse) and their son
The Bride of the Nile
2015
63
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Edouard Mills-Affif
.
A secluded village in the Nile Delta, a traditional Egyptian family. A drama of tragic proportions is being played out. Like millions of young girls throughout the world, Heba must marry a man that
Broken Gods
2019
42
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Dakxinkumar Bajrange (Chhara)
Alice Tilche
.
Set among the Rathava and Bhil Adivasi communities of western India, Broken Gods documents the social impact of Hindu religious evangelism among India’s Indigenous groups. As Indigenous people join
Cantadoras: Musical Memories of Life and Death in Colombia
2017
70
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
María Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez
.
A portrait of life in rural Colombia, towards its Carribean coast, told through the words and songs of the resilient Afro-colombian singers that farm there. Through intimate interviews and the
Careers in Ethnographic Film
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Workshop
Convened by
Ed Owles
.
What do people do with a degree in visual anthropology? A panel from a variety of roles across academia, TV and independent filmmaking discuss their career paths and how their training in
Carnival King of Europe
'
Workshop
Convened by
Giovanni Kezich
.
European winter festival masquerades possess a number of common elements - relating to character and content as well as structure - that are astonishingly similar across great geographical distances,
Centenary of Jean Rouch
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Gala event
Convened by
Paul Henley
.
After a brief introduction to the work of Jean Rouch, there will be a screening of one of his major works, "Moi, un Noir". This will be followed by a Round Table discussion and Q&A,
Changa Revisited
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Peter Biella
Leonard Kamerling
.
This is the story of Tanzania Maasai elder Toreto ole Koisenge and his passage through three decades of cultural and economic change. Seen from two points across a thirty year divide, the film uses
Chasing Houses
2017
60
'
Directed by
Justin Time
.
The experimental road movie enters the contradictory space between home and mobility. Through the vastness of the US American West, CHASING HOUSES follows mobile homes on their journey from tear down
Chasing Shadows
2019
70
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Roger Canals
.
This film is an intimate portrait of the Kyangyang prophetic movement in Guinea-Bissau. The members of the movement communicate with their ancestors, who transmit messages from the high God through
The Chateau
2018
113
'
Directed by
Lisbet Holtedahl
.
A portrait of one of the richest Cameroonian industrialists Al Hajji Mohamadou Ousmanou Abbo. Filmed over a period of more than ten years, the red thread of the story is the construction of Al
Chosen People
2016
18
'
Directed by
Qihui Wu
.
Responding to systematic racism and historical erasure, the African diapora has developed a multitude of tactics for mitigating oppressive ideological conditions. Among them, the Hebrew Israelite
The Chronotopes of Palestine
2015
38
'
Directed by
Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek
.
The Chronotopes of Palestine (38’) is a collection of five ethnographic short films, which explore different modes of remembering the homeland among three generations of exiled Polish and British
The Cinema Travellers
2016
96
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Shirley Abraham
Amit Madheshiya
.
An affectionate but melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the travelling cinema. The huge projector has been repaired countless times by its ingenious operator. The tent and screen
Closing Reception & Awards Ceremony
'
Gala event
Convened by
Paul Henley
.
Steven Hughes, chair of the panel of judges will invite his fellow judges to announce the 2017 film prizes and to give a brief explanation of the reasons for their decision. After each prize
A Cobra
2016
19
'
Directed by
Carlos Sautchuk
.
What we call Amazonia is actually a diversity of environments, artifacts, actions and actors. These elements are in a constant relation of genesis, producing each other in particular places and
Cracks
2018
54
'
Directed by
Dimitra Kofti
.
Shiny supermarkets stand next to dilapidated factory buildings in the Bulgarian city of Pernik, one of the Balkans once most important industrial areas. Pernik used to be a symbol of
Creative Mentorship - Session 1
105
'
Forum
Convened by
Caterina Sartori
.
This special event provides a chance to glimpse exciting new ethnographic film projects in the making. In these sessions, filmmakers will pitch their projects and share a short extract from their
Creative Mentorship - Session 2
105
'
Forum
Convened by
RAI Film Festival
.
A chance to glimpse exciting new ethnographic film projects in the making. In these sessions, filmmakers will pitch their projects and share a short extract from their works-in-progress. They will
Damiana Kryygi
2015
94
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Alejandro Fernández Mouján
.
The year is 1896. In the Paraguayan forest, a three-year-old Aché girl survives the massacre of her family by white settlers. She is baptised 'Damiana' by her captors. At the age of 14, she is
Death of the One who Knows
2020
82
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Dana Rappoport
.
In the Toraja highlands of Sulawesi (Indonesia), Lumbaa is one of the last masters of ritual speech. After his forced conversion to Pentecostalism, he is compelled to stop all his ritual activity and
Decolonising the Archive shorts #1
70
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
Decolonising the Archive shorts #2
73
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
The Devil and the Holy Water
2016
12
'
Directed by
Diego Maria Malara
.
For centuries, exorcism has been a daily practice in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. But as Ethiopia has undergone extensive social change, exorcism has been revolutionized. New problems produce new
Dreaming The Memories of Now
2018
92
'
Directed by
Geska Helena Brečević
Robert Brečević
.
Journeying into the mythical space of southern Mexico, visual artists Geska and Robert Brecevic and their five-year old daughter Katja unearth complex stories in which time, memory and nostalgia are
Drokpa
2016
79
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Yan Chun Su
.
Drokpa is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of nomads on the eastern Tibetan plateau. With rare access to a small community of nomads living on the vast yet rapidly degrading
Dust
2016
44
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Deepak Tolange
.
Every winter, thousands of Nepalis and Indians migrate to various parts of Nepal to work in brick factories. Many of these labourers are children who drop out of school, engage in hard labour and
The Eagle Huntress
2016
87
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Otto Bell
.
Aishol-pan, a 13-year-old girl, trains to become the first female in 12 generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down
Eid AI-Fitr
2015
70
'
Directed by
Xiangchen Liu
.
Kirghiz people in western China celebrate the end of Ramadan with religious ceremonies, meals and other activities.
Elder sister
2017
96
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Zheng Long
.
From the 1970s, the "family planning" policies of the Chinese state limited its citizens to having one child. These policies are well-known. Lesser known are the smaller stories of how
Elder's Corner
2020
96
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Siji Awoyinka
.
From the colourful, celebratory sounds of Juju to the politicized urgency of Afrobeat, Nigerian musicians have spearheaded some of Africa's most prominent musical movements. For over a decade,
Employment Office
2015
74
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Anne Schiltz
Charlotte Grégoire
.
An office interior, a row of desks, people facing each other. This is where unemployed people come to meet with their advisers. What is at stake are their benefit payments. Here everyone has to abide
The Enemy: a Partisan Hymnbook
2015
80
'
Directed by
Federico Spinetti
.
A gunshot echoes from 1944, leading Italian post-punk musician Massimo Zamboni to uncover his family’s past. Long after the break-up of C.S.I., the historic band that he co-founded, Zamboni calls
Engaging Media Worlds [NYU]
'
Talks
.
Engaging/Empowering Image-Voices
'
Conference
Convened by
Raminder Kaur
Mariagiulia Grassilli
.
How can anthropologists and filmmakers engage with and empower marginalised individuals and communities? Since the 1950s, ethnographic filmmakers and theorists have advocated for participatory
Entretejido
2015
33
'
Directed by
Patricia Alvarez
.
Peruvian alpaca wool is a material of significance among Andean highland communities and their rich textile traditions. Within global fashion worlds, it is considered a luxurious material,
Eoha
2015
22
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Vladimir Perovic
.
In a timeless rocky mountain landscape evoking the time of Creation, a shepherd communicates with his goats and sheep. Twenty or so different cries, screams, chirps, babbles, mumbles, whispers,
Ethnographic Film and Mental Health: Transformations and Impact
'
Workshop
Convened by
Mike Poltorak
.
This interactive workshop explores the challenges and possibilities that emerge when visual anthropologists engage with ideas and experiences associated with mental health – and, in particular,
Ethnographic Film in the Marketplace
'
Forum
Convened by
André Singer
.
This Forum will consider the distribution of films of an anthropological nature to broad general and international audiences as well as within the academic sphere. Chaired by André Singer, President
Even When I Fall
2017
95
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Kate McLarnon
Sky Neal
.
Sheetal and Saraswoti met as teenagers in a Kathmandu refuge, both survivors of child trafficking to Indian circuses. They had been rescued and brought back across the border to Nepal- but what does
An Extraordinary Wedding: Marriage and Modernity in Highlands, Papua New Guinea
2018
55
'
Directed by
Rosita Henry
Daniela Vavrova
.
An Extraordinary Wedding is a film about contemporary marital exchanges in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The film presents the complex relationships entangled in a web of bridewealth
The Face Behind the Mask
2015
54
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Nirmal Chander Dandriyal
.
Weaving between past and present, performances and daily routine, this film focuses on the life and struggle of Shashadhar Acharya, a member of the fifth generation of a family of traditional Chhau
Fad'jal (Safi Faye Special Focus)
1979
112
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Safi Faye
.
The work of pioneering Senegalese filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye is the subject of our Special Focus at the 16th RAI Film Festival. In Fad'jal, Faye tells the story of a Serer village in the
The Family and the Animals
2015
15
'
Directed by
Jacob Hesmondhalgh
Marie-Josephine Hobson
.
Sunrise to set. An ethnographic film, using no subtitles or narration to depict and illustrate the co-existence of a rural Zimbabwean family and their animals.
Father's Prescription
2017
11
'
Shorts
Directed by
Enke Huang
.
A personal exploration of traditional Chinese medicine that considers the importance of its sensory qualities. Huang vividly recalls the extreme bitter taste and smell of the teas consumed by her
The Feel of History
2017
29
'
Directed by
Lise Zurné
.
Each year, on the 1st of March, a historical society called the Komunitas Djokjakarta 1945 re-enacts one of the last battles with the Dutch colonizers of 1949 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Following
A Feeling Greater Than Love
2017
93
'
Directed by
Mary Jirmanus
.
In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and Gandour chocolate factories. These events from
Film, Identity and Nation-Building
'
Workshop
Convened by
Jeremy MacClancy
.
This workshop will consist of two presentations that query the relations between film, identity, and nation-building. They will interrogate the connections between an ever-developing technology, a
Filmmaking for Fieldwork
'
Talks
.
Fire Mouth
2017
9
'
Shorts
Directed by
Luciano Pérez Fernández
.
A film about a football match in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, in which we see none of the action, or even a single player. We only catch glimpses of the fans as they bake, rather sluggishly,
Fireball
'
Lifetime Achievement
.
The Five Breakfasts of Mr Podgoretsky
2016
21
'
Directed by
Carl Rowlinson
.
In the shadow of Brexit an expat is deported from a country that he has made his home over the last 50 years. This documentary asks what it means to make a country a home.
Five Faces of Shiva
2018
60
'
Directed by
R.A. Fedde
.
Five Faces of Shiva follows the rise and fall of the popularity of Hindu god lithographs, arguably India’s first mass media. Lithography — a printing technique which allowed for highly detailed
Floating Raft
2018
29
'
Directed by
Zhang Chong
.
Floating Raft takes an observational look at the life of a vibrant Chinese Buddhist monk Shi Yanyi and his Buddhist brothers, in Los Angeles. The Shaolin Temple is famous for its 1500-year Buddhist
Flores, little Jamaica
2017
49
'
Directed by
Maude Katz
.
The fact that a type of music specific to one place could touch a distant listener has always intrigued me. When I met young people of my generation who were fans of reggae music at Flores, a small
The Forgotten Generation
2015
40
'
Directed by
Deepa Dhanraj
.
In the Forgotten Generation older people aged over 60 in urban Tamil Nadu, rural Rajasthan and tribal Maharashtra reveal the realities of their lives, relationships and work as well as their
Gali (Street)
2017
52
'
Directed by
Shabani Hassanwalia
Samreen Farooqui
.
Gali, delves into a world of hip-hop in Delhi, a community that role-plays participation, as well as, dissent, against a mainstream that continues to exclude them. The documentary catches them in
The George Brandt Lecture - An Open Conversation with Hugh Brody
'
Gala event
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Angela Piccini
.
The RAI Life Achievement Award, which has been given at a number of RAI Film Festivals since 1990, has been awarded in 2017 to anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Hugh Brody. In collaboration with
Global Racialisations shorts
57
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
Convened by
Mahdi Fleifel
.
Global racialisations - Q&A with directors
'
Talks
.
Got High With Only One Day Singing
2015
33
'
Directed by
Meng Ziwei
.
Huaer sing the oldest and most renowned folk songs in Gansu Province, China.
The Granary of Salcete
2017
37
'
Directed by
Vince Costa
.
Curtorim is located on the banks of the river Zuari, in Goa, India. The people of this village have over centuries built a bond with rice, so profoundly that it earned the village the title of
Green River. The time of the Yakurunas
2017
70
'
Directed by
Alvaro Sarmiento
Diego Sarmiento
.
Guided by ayahuasca chants, GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS is a poetic journey into the depths of the Amazon. The film explores the perception of time in three small villages intertwined by
Gringo Trails
2013
79
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Pegi Vail
.
For many the tourist pathway across South America, Africa and Asia known as the “gringo trail” offers life-altering adventures. For host nations, it offers financial security. But this trail
Guardians of the Night
2018
17
'
Shorts
Directed by
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Eleonora Diamanti
.
A survey of the happenings in Guantánamo, Cuba during nighttime. We see neighbourhood watchmen on lonely streets, bustling crowds of revellers in illuminated squares, families as they relax at home
Guru, a Hijra Family
2016
75
'
Directed by
Laurie Colson
Axelle Le Dauphin
.
Guru documents the work and daily life of a family of hijras in a small village in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. Silky, Mahima, Trisha, Durga, Kuyili, Priyanka, Vasundhara and Yamuna,
Gushegu Exile
2017
52
'
Directed by
Emil Nørgaard Munk
.
In the shadow of a tree Salamatu separates pebbles from the beans she has found at the local market square. Nighttime is coming and her children are hungry. Gmanun is packing 14 years of life in
Gyalmu's House
2016
18
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Asmita Shrish
Gavin Carver
.
In 2015 an earthquake shook the mountains of the Langtang Valley, Nepal, causing landslides and avalanches taking hundreds of lives from the small community. A year later Nima Gyalmu, a woman of
H is for Harry
2018
81
'
Directed by
Ed Owles
Jaime Taylor
.
A coming of age story about Harry, a charismatic 11-year old boy, who arrives at secondary school in suburban London unable to read or write. With the help of Sophie, his extremely dedicated teacher,
Half Elf
2020
64
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
.
A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Her love of books is
The Healer and the Psychiatrist
2019
74
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Mike Poltorak
.
This film explores the tensions, contradictions, and resonances between traditional and psychiatric treatment in the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u. We meet two main characters: the
Heartbound
2018
90
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Janus Metz
Sine Plambech
.
In a small, wind-swept fishing community on the Northern coast of Denmark live 926 Thai-women. 25 years ago there were none. Heartbound is a unique study of this unprecedented network of Thai/Danish
Honouring Professor Stephen Nugent
'
Conference
Convened by
Renato Athias
.
Professor Stephen Nugent, a major figure in the field of Visual Anthropology, passed away in November 2018. At Goldsmiths, Steve set up the pioneering MA in Visual Anthropology, and more recently
I Am Belmaya
2020
80
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Sue Carpenter
.
Belmaya is desperate for independence. Born a dalit in Nepal, orphaned aged 9, barely educated, and trapped in an abusive marriage with a baby daughter, Belmaya, 21, has given up hope of finding
I am Sheriff
2017
28
'
Directed by
Teboho Edkins
.
“I am Sheriff” follows a young man as he travels the mountain kingdom of Lesotho showing his film in remote villages, schools and communities. Sheriff was born with a girl’s body, but as the
Imagine(ing) migration
'
Talks
.
Imagine(ing) migration. The aesthetics of borders and resistance [SOAS]. What is migration? Is this the “age of migration”? What is diaspora? What challenges do diasporic communities bring to
In the Devil's Garden
2018
25
'
Directed by
Pavel Borecký
.
The film situates the viewer within the makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of
In Search of Bidesia
2019
65
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Simit Bhagat
.
In the Indian language of Bhojpuri the name ‘Bidesia’ refers to a person who has migrated to a foreign land. However, Bidesia is also the name of a genre of Bhojpuri folk music, which reflects
In Search...
2018
90
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Beryl Magoko
.
As a young girl growing up in a rural village in Kenya, Beryl thought that all women in the world have to be “circumcised” by going through Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) at a young
The Intelligent Hand
2015
21
'
Directed by
Trevor H. J. Marchand
.
The Intelligent Hand introduces us to a first-year cohort of British fine woodwork trainees at the Building Crafts College in Stratford, East London. Through the narratives of the course tutor and
Interactive Documentary and Ethnographic Film
'
Workshop
Convened by
Judith Aston
Paolo Favero
.
This workshop will aim to generate a constructive dialogue between innovative or emerging non-linear (or interactive) documentary practices and the terrain of ethnographic film. It will be structured
Istanbul Notes
2016
69
'
Directed by
Özlem Sariyildiz
Yunus Emre Aydin
.
‘Istanbul Makamı’ is a cinematographic improvisation with 5 musicians from abroad who fall in love with the Maqam Music (Classical Ottoman Music) and decide to live in Turkey believing that
J. C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer
2016
55
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Steven Feld
.
This film presents an exceptional fifty-year artistic career, from Accra’s streets to Ghana’s villages to international TV. In fifteen delightful puppet shows, Mr. Abbey chronicles Ghana's music
Janitzio its fishing, its pinatas
2015
31
'
Directed by
Jose Figueroa
Paola Rodriguez
David Figueroa
Omar Foglio
.
Since the 80s around 250 Purepecha families settled in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. They traveled more than 2,500 miles from Janitzio island, where they were fishermen and weavers of nets,
The Jerusalem Dream
2016
54
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Meni Elias
.
In the late 1970s, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. Was it worth it? in this film the question is posed for the first time
The Jiama Paper of Bai With My Heart
2016
21
'
Directed by
He Zi Jian Li
.
Traditional Jiama imprinted paper production in the Bai cultural region, southwest China, presented through the experiences of one particular family.
John Baily Masterclass - Afghan Music
'
Masterclass
Convened by
Barley Norton
.
In this revelatory masterclass John Baily will trace his ‘career’ as an ethnomusicological film maker, starting with the films he made as a result of research in Herat, Afghanistan, in the 1970s:
Journey to the Maggot Feeder
2015
68
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Liivo Niglas
Priit Tender
.
This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a film about an old Chukchi legend – The Maggot Feeder. The unconventional narrative
Kashi Labh
2018
43
'
Directed by
Rajat Nayyar
.
This film explores the aesthetics of dying, family as a unit of care, and taking the last vital breath in Kashi, India’s sacred city. With Kashi Labh, Nayyar reflects upon his work with families
Keynote by Faye Ginsburg
'
Talks
.
Indigenous Media and Archival Imaginaries This talk considers archives created by Indigenous mediamakers who, over the last three decades, have produced an astonishing array of work -- from
Keynote by Stephanie Spray
'
Talks
.
Stephanie Spray, Director, Center for Visual Anthropology at USC Dornsife, Los Angeles, USA. She is a filmmaker, phonographer, and anthropologist whose work explores and exploits the poetics of
Kim Longinotto
120
'
Gala event
Convened by
Angela Piccini
.
This year, the RAI Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded in 2019 to multi award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto. Marking this occasion, Longinotto will give the 2019 George Brandt Lecture at a
King On, Brasil!
2018
15
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Luiza Folegatti
.
King On, Brasil! is a short documentary featuring six Brazilian Drag Kings and their use of social media to share their work, knowledge and performances which in turn strengthen their community. The
The King of the Cockroaches
2016
70
'
Student
Directed by
Timothy Cooper
.
The degraded surfaces of mass-copied films - the glitches, scanlines, errors, and coding artifacts - rather than the filmmaker’s imprint, reveal the material culture and social life of film
Kivalina
2016
64
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Gina Abatemarco
.
More than a hundred miles above the Arctic Circle, an Inupiaq Eskimo community is living on an island that is fast disappearing into the ocean. With no resources to move and only a precarious sea
Kokota: The Islet of Hope
2015
29
'
Directed by
Craig Norris
.
Mbarouk Mussa Omar is from an East African Island called Pemba. Nearly ten years ago he visited a tiny neighbouring islet called Kokota and was shocked by what he saw. Kokota was teetering towards
Lampedusa in Winter
2015
93
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jakob Brossmann
.
The Italian "refugee island" of Lampedusa is in the firm grip of winter's tristesse. The tourists have left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the mainland. As a fire destroys the
The Land Beneath Our Feet
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Sarita Siegel
Gregg Mitman
.
The Land Beneath Our Feet weaves together rare archival footage from a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia with the journey of a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, seeking to understand how the past
Last Days. Last Shot
2016
52
'
Directed by
Sumira Roy
.
In ancient Eastern thought, there are no absolute truths and even in death there is no one model. Through the film’s two characters and their simple acts of daily life we explore two contrasting
Last Round of Jaldi Five
2017
26
'
Directed by
Ellen Lapper
.
2017 marked seventy years since the decolonisation and Partition of India, sparking one of the largest mass migrations in history. One particular community uprooted by this event were the
Legacies
2018
34
'
Student
Directed by
Clair Maleney
.
The pioneering approach of Jubilee School in West Philadelphia seeks to empower its students (mainly black, and from low-income households), via a curriculum which highlights the arts, social
La forma del mundo
2017
88
'
Directed by
David Delgado San Ginés
.
A sound is born from the root of the earth. Those are the voices that sing for the animas of Purgatory. Every year for centuries los Cantadores de Arbejales, in the misty mountains of the island of
The Life of Others
2017
45
'
Directed by
Robert McNamara
.
The film is a compilation of scenes from Kazakh Mongolian life outside of Bayan Olgii in Western Mongolia. It was made during a one month period where I lived with and filmed a group of families
Limpiadores
2015
39
'
Directed by
Fernando Mitjáns
.
Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant cleaners outsourced at the School of Oriental and
Living Here
2017
16
'
Shorts
Directed by
Sarah Baril Gaudet
.
In Aupaluk, Northern Quebec, a small cluster of primary coloured buildings cluster amidst the blinding white tundra. We are introduced to the tiny town (population 200, mainly Inuit) by a thoughtful
MASTER FENG, TAOIST MONK IN CHINA TODAY
2018
72
'
Directed by
Adeline HERROU
.
This ethnographical film paints the portrait of a Taoist monk in central China. Forced to return to a lay life during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), he was sent to work in the fields for 15th
Maboan - notes on the construction of a dam
2015
25
'
Directed by
Ana Luísa Luz
Joana Sousa
Zaino Zauad
Ansomane Dabo
Braima Indjai
.
The colonial military offensive and consequent population exile during the Independence Struggle in Guinea-Bissau (1963-1974) led to the destruction of many mangrove rice fields. In every corner of
MacDougall Masterclass - Turkana Conversations Revisited
'
Masterclass
Convened by
Michael Stewart
.
Marking 40 years since its original release as well as its more recent digital remastering, David MacDougall will present the classic trilogy he made with his wife Judith on the Turkana pastoralists
Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy
103
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation
Making a Living in the Dry Season
2016
35
'
Directed by
Ines Ponte
.
Set in the highlands village of Katuwo, the film is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of a family living in an agro-pastoralist farm in Namibe, Angola. Through my request to my host
Masterclass: Laurent Van Lancker
105
'
Masterclass
Convened by
Chris Wright
.
This year's RAI Film Festival Masterclass will be delivered by award-winning filmmaker Laurent Van Lancker, in conversation with Chris Wright. Van Lancker won the Basil Wright Prize at the RAI
Midnight Ramblers
2017
57
'
Directed by
Julian Ballester
.
Night after night, Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim and Tattoo wander through the streets and alleys of Montreal. They support each other, and they are all drug users. It is their only way of escaping a harsh
Migrants of ther Dunes
2017
28
'
Directed by
Erica Pomerance
.
The dramatic sanding-over of arable land caused by climate change now threatens the very survival of many ancestral Dogon communities along the magestic Bandiagara Cliffs in Mali. The Dogon people
Milano Milanovaç (with Make a Silence)
2021
49
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Elisa Piria
.
The film follows the life of Kristina, an extraordinary Serbian professional violinist. Music is everything in her family, any time is good for playing and everyone plays a musical instrument. But
A Miscellany of Families
2015
36
'
Directed by
Eluned Zoe Aiano
.
This multi-layered documentary explores the way we navigate the stories that are presented to us during childhood and how we choose to pass them on through ideological influences and shifting values.
Mobail Goroka
2018
17
'
Shorts
Directed by
Jackie Kauli
.
Glossy advertisements for telecommunications company Digicel abound in Goroka, a town in Papua New Guinea’s eastern highlands. This film takes a close look at the footsoldiers of this multinational
The Modern Jungle
2016
72
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Charles Fairbanks
.
The Modern Jungle is a portrait of globalization filtered through the fever dream of its main character – a Mexican shaman, don Juan – who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed
Mossane (Safi Faye Special Focus)
1996
105
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Safi Faye
.
The work of pioneering Senegalese filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye is the subject of our Special Focus at the 16th RAI Film Festival. Mossane is one of her greatest achievements, and we present
Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea)
'
Talks
.
Filmmaker Alastair Cole and anthropologist Magnus Course in conversation around the questions posed by their award-winning short film Muir ar n-Athreaichean (Our Fathers’ Sea). The film’s
My Name is Eeooow
2016
52
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Oinam Doren
.
Imagine a village where you sing every time you call someone's name. In the village of Kongthong, everybody has a song tune as a name - the 'Jingrwai Iawbei'. The name comes from a mother as an
NEW RISE, OLD EBB
2018
28
'
Directed by
Carlo Cubero
Enrico Barone
Kristiina Pilvet
.
In 2016 from May to September, on the island of Piirissaare, a series of fires destroyed several houses and the prayer house, causing insecurities and disagreements in the community.
NHENHA
2018
26
'
Student
Directed by
Andre Bahule
Karen Boswall
.
“We work the land and we dance. That’s what we know how to do” explains Maria in this portrait of the lives of three generations of women in southern Mozambique. The dance they dance is the
Naach Bhikhari Naach
2018
72
'
Directed by
Shilpi Gulati
Jainendra Dost
.
Naach is a form of traditional folk theatre from Bihar, India. In this tradition, male artists often cross dress as women on stage and are referred to as ‘laundas’. The most legendary name in
Negotiating Amnesia
2015
30
'
Directed by
Alessandra Ferrini
.
Negotiating Amnesia takes as its starting point two collections of photographs found within the Alinari's photographic Archive in Florence (Italy): a series of black and white images of the Ethiopian
Never Hold Your Breath
2016
34
'
Directed by
Gil Orr Urtreger
.
Utila is a tiny island in the Western Caribbean, part of the Republic of Honduras. It is a mixed community established in the 1800s by Caymans, outlaws and former slaves. We arrive as travelers and
New Moon
2018
70
'
Directed by
Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann
.
.See less NICHE African, Islamic, Developing Nations, Women
Nicobar, a long way...
2016
60
'
Directed by
Richa Hushing
.
Deep in the Bay of Bengal, the Nicobar archipelago, a tribal reserve protected under Andaman and Nicobar Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation, was worst smashed by the Tsunami of 26th December
Niishii | Night Worlds
2017
22
'
Student
Directed by
Saranya Nayak
.
What happens to a town after sunset? What happens to life and light? Niishii is an evocative tour through the night time hours in the town of Dubrajpur (West Bengal, India). Here, amidst inky
Nobody Dies Here
2016
23
'
Directed by
Simon Panay
.
Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.
Not in my Neighbourhood
2018
86
'
Global Racialisations
Directed by
Kurt Orderson
.
As cities around the world catapult themselves into ‘world-class city status’, we have to ask ourselves, “at what cost”? This film tells the intergenerational stories of spatial violence in
Nyumba Nthobu
2016
15
'
Directed by
Nick Lunch
.
This film was made by a group of women from the Mara region, North Tanzania, who practise an old tradition called Nyumba Nthobu, by which childless (or lonely) women known as ‘Mamas’ can legally
OTHER FIRE
2017
21
'
Directed by
Guilherme Moura Fagundes
.
A sensorial record of affinity and enmity relationships with fire in the conservation of the Cerrado biome. In the company is locals, hired to act as brigadiers and, more recently, as management
Of Love & Law
2017
94
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Hikaru Toda
.
Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a
Ojò Igbì (with Gũlā)
2020
60
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Daniele Ferreira
João Carlos Couto
.
The ritual cycle of the Waters of Oxalá is one of the most important ceremonies of candomblé in Brazil. After days of preparation, the sons and daughters of the saint gather to cultivate and relive
The Olive Pickers
2020
51
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
2019
113
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Zacharias Kunuk
.
In April 1961, John Kennedy is America’s new President, the Cold War heats up in Berlin and nuclear bombers are deployed from bases in arctic Canada. In Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, Noah
Opening Night Screening: Edge of the Knife
2018
100
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Gwaai Edenshaw
Helen Haig-Brown
.
We are delighted to open the 16th RAI Film Festival with Edge of the Knife, the recipient of this year's President's Medal. Edge of the Knife is the first feature film in the endangered Haida
Ophir
2020
97
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Alexandre Berman
Olivier Pollet
.
This is a collaborative story of the civil war and ongoing struggle for sovereignty in Bougainville Island in the face of an all-too-familiar pattern of colonial rule and corporate mining interests.
Our Freedom
2017
52
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Laura Kuen
Yury Snigirev
.
The inhabitants of the village of Pungino live mostly beyond the reach of the Russian state. Here, in this remote rural location, they create their own sphere of personal freedom. This film explores
Oyate
2019
72
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Dan Girmus
.
This carefully observed film is composed of a series of moments, feelings, gestures, and events that took place on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during the summer of 2015. The narrative,
P01: Rethinking fieldwork
'
Conference
Convened by
Maruska Svasek
.
P02a: Crisis, creativity and ethics
'
Conference
Convened by
Timothy Cooper
Till J F Trojer
.
P02b: Crisis, creativity and ethics
'
Conference
Convened by
Timothy Cooper
Till J F Trojer
.
P03: Existential crisis, exceptional fields
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Conference
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P04: Rethinking anthropological film distribution
'
Conference
Convened by
Christos Varvantakis
Sanderien Verstappen
.
P05a: The crisis of communication
'
Conference
Convened by
Federica Manfredi
Lucia Portis
.
P05b: The crisis of communication
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Conference
Convened by
Federica Manfredi
Lucia Portis
.
P06a: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance
'
Conference
Convened by
Lana Askari
Paloma Yáñez Serrano
Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie
.
P06b: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance
'
Conference
Convened by
Lana Askari
Paloma Serrano
Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie
.
P07: Critical play: Smartphones as a mode of creative engagement with crisis
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Conference
Convened by
Sanderien Verstappen
Mark Westmoreland
.
P08a: Mask: the Face of Covid-19
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Conference
Convened by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Cathy Greenhalgh
.
P08b: Mask: the Face of Covid-19
'
Conference
Convened by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Cathy Greenhalgh
.
P08c: Mask: the Face of Covid-19
'
Conference
Convened by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Cathy Greenhalgh
.
P09: Together for Mental Health
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Conference
Convened by
Erminia Colucci
.
P10: Housing loss and insecurity
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Conference
Convened by
Caterina Sartori
.
P11: Social movements, protest, social justice & creativity
'
Conference
Convened by
José Sherwood
.
P12a: Immersive Ethnography
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Conference
Convened by
Rossella Schillaci
Mark Westmoreland
.
P12b: Immersive Ethnography
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Conference
Convened by
Rossella Schillaci
Mark Westmoreland
.
P13: Our pandemic lives: photographing the pandemic
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Conference
Convened by
Caroline Bennett
.
P14: Co-agitō ergo sum
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Conference
Convened by
César Enrique Giraldo Herrera
.
P15: Quality and equality in collaborative projects
'
Conference
Convened by
Arjang Omrani
Kris Rutten
.
P16a: Global Black Lives Matter
'
Conference
Convened by
Raminder Kaur
Mariagiulia Grassilli
.
P16b: Global Black Lives Matter
'
Conference
Convened by
Raminder Kaur
Mariagiulia Grassilli
.
P16c: Global Black Lives Matter
'
Conference
Convened by
Raminder Kaur
Mariagiulia Grassilli
.
P17: Workshop: Radical inclusivity and visual ethnography
'
Conference
Convened by
Mike Poltorak
.
P18: Chronotopes during crisis
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Conference
Convened by
Alastair Lomas
Charlotte Hoskins
Andrea Bordoli
.
P19: The future of Visual Anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter
'
Conference
Convened by
Judith Aston
Shawn Sobers
.
P20: Big mouth
'
Conference
Convened by
Nomi Dave
Bremen Donovan
.
P21: Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology
'
Conference
Convened by
Letizia Bonanno
José Sherwood
.
P22: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty
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Conference
Convened by
Sandro Simon
Valerie Haensch
Ian M. Cook
.
P23a: Disappearing world reloaded
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Conference
Convened by
Blake P Kendall
Pavel Borecký
.
P23b: Disappearing world reloaded
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Conference
Convened by
Blake P Kendall
Pavel Borecký
.
P23c: Disappearing world reloaded
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Conference
Convened by
Blake P Kendall
Pavel Borecký
.
P24: Encountering reality as crisis
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Conference
Convened by
Toma Peiu
Luiza Parvu
.
P25: Between academic theory-building and social engagement
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Conference
Convened by
Henrike Neuhaus
Yanina Carpentieri
.
P26a: Empirical art
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Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
P26b: Empirical art
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Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
P26c: Empirical art
'
Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
P26d: Empirical art
'
Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
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P27a: Colonial Film Archives
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Conference
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Emma Sandon
.
P27b: Colonial Film Archives
'
Conference
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Emma Sandon
.
P27c: Colonial Film Archives
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Conference
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Emma Sandon
.
Paltik Families
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jason Fox
Roel Arcilla
.
Set in the ten days leading up to mayoral elections in Danao, Philippines, Paltik Families follows the Arcillas, a family engaged in an illegal network of counterfeit American gun manufacturers, an
Panel 01: Indigenous Cinema: past, present and future
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Renato Athias
Rodrigo Lacerda
.
Full title - Indigenous Cinema: past, present and future Indigenous cinema is a very diverse and global category with more than fifty years of history. The panel seeks submissions to analyze the
Panel 02: How to frame a poem in a film with others?
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Roseline Lambert
Rachel McCrum
.
Full title - How to frame a poem in a film with others? Experiences of translation between different langages, poems, pictures and borders This panel aims to discuss the realisation of film-poems
Panel 03: Precarious landscapes (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Toma Peiu
.
Full title: Precarious landscapes: forensics and decolonial futures This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming
Panel 03: Precarious landscapes (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Toma Peiu
.
Full title- Precarious landscapes: forensics and decolonial futures This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming
Panel 04: Indigenous California
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Teri Brewer
Sue Giles
Wendy Teeter
.
Full title- Indigenous California: A Forum on Collaborative Archaeological and Ethnographic Visual Media Projects In recent years there have been an increasing number of productive visual media
Panel 05: Haptics and Visual Anthropology
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Aparna Sharma
Arine Kirstein Høgel
.
Full title - Haptics and Visual Anthropology: Audio-Visual Dialogues and Non-Verbal Forms of Knowledge Construction In this workshop, filmmakers and researchers Sharma and Høgel explore how
Panel 06: Expanding Ethnographic Film: Multimodality?
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Mark Westmoreland
Janine Prins
.
This panel seeks to investigate the expansion of ethnographic film practices in cases where a combination of different practice-based methodologies led to a multimodal approach. To what extent does
Panel 07: From the Field to the Screen (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
Mattia Fumanti
.
Full title - From the Field to the Screen: Reflexive Practices and Collaborative Methods in Ethnographic Film. This panel includes contributions from visual anthropologists and filmmakers of
Panel 07: From the Field to the Screen (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
Mattia Fumanti
.
Full title - From the Field to the Screen: Reflexive Practices and Collaborative Methods in Ethnographic Film This panel includes contributions from visual anthropologists and filmmakers of
Panel 08: Golden Wing, Silver Wings
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Gary Seaman
Zhuang Kongshao
.
Full title - Golden Wing, Silver Wings: Filmic representations of the autobiographical ethnography of Lin Yueh-hwa This panel will focus on the legacy of the famous Chinese anthropologist Lin
Panel 09: We Three: Apparatus, Subject, Society (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Timothy P. A. Cooper
Vindhya Buthpitiya
.
Departing from the tripartite relationship between apparatus, subject, and society this panel invites reflection on issues of exclusion, consent, cinephobia, cinephilia, censorship, archival
Panel 09: We Three: Apparatus, Subject, Society (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Timothy P. A. Cooper
Vindhya Buthpitiya
.
Departing from the tripartite relationship between apparatus, subject, and society this panel invites reflection on issues of exclusion, consent, cinephobia, cinephilia, censorship, archival
Panel 10: Youth-centred frames (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Camilla Morelli
Flavia Kremer
.
Full title - Youth-centred frames: visual collaborations and participatory techniques in the research with young people This panel explores the use of participatory visual methods (film-making
Panel 10: Youth-centred frames (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Camilla Morelli
Flavia Kremer
.
Full title - Youth-centred frames: visual collaborations and participatory techniques in the research with young people This panel explores the use of participatory visual methods (film-making and
Panel 11: The material mediation of the ‘non-normative’ body
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Cathy Greenhalgh
Catalin Brylla
.
This panel considers filmmakers who seek to work with and represent ‘non-normative’ bodies that are traditionally stereotyped and portrayed as “the other”. The aim is to explore innovative or
Panel 12: Transforming theory in and through film (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Mattijs van de Port
Janine Prins
.
This panel seeks to expand theoretical ambitions in visual anthropology. We explore audio-visual modes of report that speak about existential issues via the minutiae of life-as-lived. We invite
Panel 12: Transforming theory in and through film (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Mattijs van de Port
Janine Prins
.
This panel seeks to expand theoretical ambitions in visual anthropology. We explore audio-visual modes of report that speak about existential issues via the minutiae of life-as-lived. We invite
Pang Lhabsol: Sikkim's National Ritual of the Land and its Guardian Deities
2015
63
'
Directed by
Anna Balikci
.
Pang Lhabsol, Sikkim’s most important indigenous celebration, consists of a series of rituals and monastic dances held in honour of Dzonga, a mountain deity residing on Mt. Khangchendzonga, the
Pasajuego
2018
75
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Daniel Oliveras de Ita
.
“Pasajuego” is the name of the court where Oaxacans play the ancient indigenous ball game of Pelota Mixteca. Today more than two million people from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca live in
Pedagogy & Public Anthropology: Legacies of Marshall's and Asch's Ethnographic Films
90
'
Seminar
Convened by
Nancy Lutkehaus
.
This panel reflects on the role of ethnographic film in pedagogy and public anthropology past, present, and future. It explores the introduction of ethnographic film into school curricula in the
People of Earth and Clouds
2016
65
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Directed by
Matteo Robert Morales
Louise Hantson
.
People of Earth and Clouds is a documentary film that explores the role of music bands in indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico and shows why "a village with no band, is a village with no
The People of the Wind
2015
59
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Directed by
Abtin Sarabi
.
On the coast of the Persian Gulf, in the south of Iran, a ritual called Zâr is still practised today. This musical exorcism is said to heal all ‘victims of the wind.’ According to this popular,
Positive Women: Heartache, Hope & Living with HIV
2017
30
'
Directed by
Rebecca Devaraj
.
In 2016, filmmaker Bex Devaraj and anthropologist Anne Lotter were given unique access to one of the biggest slums in Kampala, Uganda, where every day is a struggle for survival. In this intimate
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary
2017
15
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Leandro Goddinho
.
An experimental documentary made with footage material recorded from the computer desktop screen, about four Brazilians who have created Youtube Channels to talk openly about their HIV status. They
Prohibition of Grazing
2016
43
'
Directed by
Wenfei Li
.
Zhang Yuansheng is 64-year-old who was originally a camel herder. Having been born in poverty, as the age of 17 he began studying camel herding in the desert and acquiring the the life skills
Promenade
2016
31
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Philip Cartelli
.
Recorded during two years but organized around a single day, “Promenade” observes a series of movements and interactions on a renovated section of the Marseille waterfront. During the day a cast
Pulse
2015
26
'
Student
Directed by
Robin Petré
.
This poetic, highly sensorial film takes place on one of Europe’s largest deer farms, which is home to 1,500 red deer and their caretakers. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first
A Radio of One’s Own
2016
34
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Directed by
Shweta Radhakrishnan
.
In the heart of the hills, in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, a frequency crackled and came to life on the 21st of September, 2013. Community radio, Mandakini ki Aawaz is Rudraprayag District’s first and
The Raven and the Seagull
2018
70
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Lasse Lau
.
Denmark and Greenland have been tied together by a complex colonial relationship for centuries. Today, Greenlanders fight for autonomy, whilst acutely aware of their economic dependence on the
The Realm of Forgotten Existence
2015
28
'
Directed by
Piotr Piasta
.
While the images in the film reveal a landscape that often seems unchanged, the narrative reveals fragments of forgotten stories and traditions, skills and working lives no longer of value in
Reclaiming Fiction
'
Workshop
Convened by
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón
.
This roundtable discussion will consider the politics and aesthetics of ethnofiction in relation to current debates in ethnographic film around collaboration and self-representation. Participating
Remake of a summer
2017
96
'
Directed by
Magali Bragard
Séverine Enjolras
.
During a summer in Paris and it’s suburbs, two young directors attempt a remake of "Chroniques d’un été", fifty years after the cult film of Rouch and Morin. An offbeat portrait of
Researching marriage, filming Family Time
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Talks
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Resonating Burra - The Story of Burrakatha
2018
42
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Intangible Culture
Directed by
Arjun Chavah
.
Burrakatha is a storytelling art form in the Telangana and Andhra regions of India. Emerging in the 1940s, amidst the struggle against feudal oppression and the Indian freedom movement, Burrakatha
Rituals on TV
90
'
Seminar
Convened by
RAI / BBC / Swan Films
.
Several recent television productions have embraced ritual - a classic topic for anthropologists! These shows have sought to document, explore, and interrogate ritual as both spectacle and concept
River Nomads
2016
40
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Eric Komlavi Hahonou
.
http://www.rivernomads.dk/river-nomads-english/ password: ddc River Nomads addresses the complex relationship between migration, mobility and citizenship. This first part of a forthcoming trilogy
Roza's Song
2016
45
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Directed by
Lowri Rees
.
Roza's song gives a unique insight into the Norwegian Roma community. The film follows Roza and her dream of making the Norwegian Roma’s first CD. The congregation and the music means a lot for
SOLITARY LAND
2017
107
'
Directed by
Tiziana Panizza
.
A researcher found 32 documentaries filmed on Easter Island almost a century ago. They contain images of the island’s rock sculptures, the Moai, but they barely show the island’s inhabitants,
Sacred Water
2016
54
'
Directed by
Olivier Jourdain
.
Guided by Vestine, an extravagant star of radio nights, the film discovers Rwandan sexuality in search of the water that gushes out of the female body. Sacred Water reveals with humor and spontaneity
Sailing a Sinking Sea
2015
65
'
Directed by
Olivia Wyatt
.
Sailing A Sinking Sea explores the culture of the Moken people of Myanmar and Thailand. The Moken are a nomadic seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic groups in Asia. Spending eight
Sakhisona
2017
27
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Intangible Culture
Directed by
Prantik Basu
.
Near Mogulmari in West Bengal lies a mound known locally as Sakhisona. Stories about it are interwoven with myth and still sung by local musicians. A dig nearby recently uncovered the remains of a
Sangharsh. Strife.
2018
105
'
Directed by
Nicolas Jaoul
.
Shot between 1997 and 2001, Sangharsh takes us deep into the lifeworld of Dalit Panther activists in the late 1990s Uttar Pradesh. By following three activists, one is taken on a rough trip in the
The Scorpion is me - A centennial family dance group
2017
95
'
Directed by
Juan Sebastián Alvarez
.
Santos Ramírez “Santico”, the current 40 year old artistic director, hides behind the Carnival’s atmosphere, as he is fighting against all odds to keep El Alacrán's poison alive. "El
Scratches on Celluloid
2018
53
'
Directed by
Vindhya Buthpitiya
Timothy Cooper
.
In the rapidly changing urban landscapes of Jaffna and Lahore, the social and public space of cinema halls are recognisable for their longevity and resilience amid insurgency, war, and
The Season of Vodoun
2016
45
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Directed by
Ran Muratsu
.
This film depicts ceremonies of Vodoun, deities of ancestors and natures spread in the Gulf of Guinea, and its relationship with national politics. The shooting was held in the period of Vodoun in
The Secret of the Caminanti
2016
63
'
Directed by
Rita Mirabella
Giuseppe Tumino
.
The history of the Caminanti is an unwritten story of an autochthonous community living 'in hiding'. We know barely anything about their history, which has only been transmitted orally throughout
Sent Away Boys
2016
43
'
Directed by
Harjant Gill
.
What happens to families in the absence of sons? What happens to land in the absence of farmers? What happens to communities in the absence of men? Sent Away Boys weaves together stories of
Shorts 01 - Creative lives
100
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
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The power of art to make worlds come into being
Shorts 02 - Women, empowerment and religion
69
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Ritual encounters with divinity
Shorts 03 - Pleasure
76
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]
Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1
62
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2
71
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual
97
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish
Shorts 07 - Sparks!
76
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film
Shorts 08 - Livelihoods
90
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Portraits of people working in rural settings
Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge
110
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Teaching the next generation
Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis
69
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste
Silas
2017
80
'
Directed by
Anjali Nayar
.
Liberian activist Silas Siakor is a tireless crusader against illegal logging and corruption. Through this focus on one small country -- “Silas” warns of the power of politics, features the role
Singing "Bird": Carrying on the Kumeyaay Tradition
2018
30
'
Directed by
Teri Brewer
.
The Kumeyaay, an indigenous people of Southern California and Northern Mexico still perform more than a dozen ancient song cycles kept alive through a process of apprenticeship and study which can
So'o: Life and death of a cow in Puerto Casado
2016
24
'
Directed by
Valentina Bonifacio
.
In the golden age of Puerto Casado, in Paraguay, at least eight cows were slaughtered every day to feed its population of 6,000 people. Eating "asado" (roasted meat) is still at the core of
The Song Collector
2016
54
'
Directed by
Erik Koto
.
In the 1960s Morup Namgyal sparked a social movement to preserve the traditional Himalayan culture of his homeland. What Morup could not imagine at that time was that he would ultimately embrace
Specialised Technique
2018
6
'
Directed by
Onyeka Igwe
.
William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, this included slow edits, no camera tricks and minimal camera movement. Hundreds of films were created in
Still Birth of the Commune-head
2015
80
'
Directed by
Qiao Wu
.
Each Floral-belt Dai village has a “Commune-head” who takes charge of annual collective ceremonies. The Commune-head is picked out through a God election ritual. All candidates’ clothes should
The Storehouses of the World
2018
27
'
Directed by
Timothy Cooper
Abeera Arif-Bashir
.
In the Pakistani city of Lahore an audiocassette recorded decades ago deep among the crowd at a ritual mourning procession continues to circulate in the neighbourhood in which it was first made.
Stories from Cabo Corrientes
2020
77
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
.
The documentary immerses us in the fantastic and magical stories of the inhabitants of Cabo Corrientes, Chocò District (Colombia) where a community of Afro-Colombians, descended from slaves of
Sunday
2018
25
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Paulo Mendel
Vitor Grunvald
.
A colourful and noisy encounter with Família Stronger, a LGBTQIA+ collective in the neighbourhood of Jardim Nazaré, on São Paulo’s periphery. Across a split screen, Sunday portrays a single day
Survivors
2018
84
'
Main Competition
Directed by
WeOwnTV
.
With unflinching intimacy this film chronicles the remarkable stories of four Sierra Leoneans during the Ebola epidemic in what is regarded as the most acute public health crisis of the modern era
TB in Town 2
2017
46
'
Directed by
Dr. Lianne (A.L.) Cremers
.
This film tells the story of patients with tuberculosis living in Town 2, one of the biggest and most violent townships of South Africa. Treatment is available for free and tuberculosis patients can
TRIBAL JUSTICE
2017
87
'
Directed by
ANNE MAKEPEACE
.
TRIBAL JUSTICE is a feature documentary about a little known, under-reported but effective criminal justice reform movement in America today: the efforts of tribal courts to create alternative
Tango, Not-For-Export
2016
53
'
Directed by
Jennie Gubner
.
This collection of 4 short films evokes everyday experiences of music making in the contemporary neighborhood tango scenes of Buenos Aires. They were made as stand alone pieces that co-exist on an
Thank You For The Rain
2017
87
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Julia Dahr
.
Over the last five years Kisilu, a smallholder farmer in Kenya, has used his camera to capture his family life, his village and the impacts of climate change. He has filmed floods, droughts and
These Objects, Those Memories
2015
29
'
Directed by
Roger Horn
.
"These Objects, Those Memories" is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically, that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape Town, South
Thinking like a Mountain
2018
91
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Alexander Hick
.
The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia’s highest mountain - the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. This indigenous community draw a sustained and singular spirituality from
Those Who Come, Will Hear
2017
77
'
Directed by
Simon Plouffe
.
Those Who Come, Will Hear proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec – all threatened with extinction. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung
Those Who Jump
2016
80
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Estephan Wagner
Moritz Siebert
Abou Bakar Sidibé
.
In northern Morocco, lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above, live over a thousand hopeful African migrants, watching the border fence. Abou from Mali is
Time to Look at Girls: Migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia
2015
31
'
Directed by
Marco Speroni
.
More migrants move within their own country or region than migrate to Northern countries. Bangladesh and Ethiopia have been experiencing increasingly high rates of migration of adolescent girls to
To Work is to Grow
2015
32
'
Directed by
Léa Klaue
.
Gerald, Ruben, Neysa and their friends are children and adolescents who work as wheelbarrow pusher at a market and as prayer boys in a cemetery in the region of Cochabamba in Bolivia. With their own
Together Apart (MA Thesis)
2018
57
'
Directed by
Maren Wickwire
.
Carren has spent most of her adult life apart from her children. When her daughter Guil Ann arrives on the island of Cyprus to join her as domestic worker, unexpected events lead to Carren’s
Tracing Roots: A Weaver's Journey
2015
26
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Ellen Frankenstein
.
This film follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate the spruce root hat found with Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi, also known as the Long Ago Person Found. The remains of the
Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in China
'
Workshop
Convened by
Gary Seaman
Paul Henley
.
This workshop will assess contemporary ethnographic filmmaking in academic contexts in China and will include presentations by the following scholars. (Further presentations may be added later). All
Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in Latin America (I)
'
Workshop
Convened by
Carlos Flores
Angela Torresan
Antonio Zirion
.
This workshop will offer a space for Latin American researchers to discuss methodological and theoretical issues around their own ethnographic film-making or works of other relevant film-makers. The
Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in Latin America (II)
'
Workshop
Convened by
Carlos Flores
Angela Torresan
Antonio Zirion
.
This workshop will be a continuation of the workshop offered at 9:00 am on Thursday 30 March (Cinema 2, Watershed). It will offer a space for Latin American researchers to discuss methodological
True Body
2016
5
'
Directed by
Louise Hollerup Christensen
Shannon Turner
Maja Rosenlund Byriel
.
What do you do to your body hair, and what does your body hair do to you? True Body is a performative documentary that draws the viewer into a debate about gender norms and cultural body practices.
Twenty Two
2016
95
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Guo Ke
.
The film focuses on Chinese ‘comfort women’ during World War II. At the time of filming, only 22 of the 200,000 Chinese victims forced into sexual slavery remained alive. Quietly humanistic, this
The Two Lives of Li Ermao
2019
87
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Jia Yuchuan
.
Filmed over 17 years across Southern China, this remarkable film is an intimate and heart-wrenching portrait of Li Ermao, a transgender migrant worker, who performs in clubs looking for love and
Undercover in Underwear
2016
19
'
Student
Directed by
Diane Agatha
.
The Internet provides an infinite place of freedom where self, mind and body are dislocated. We are able to reinvent and present ourselves the way we want. It is in this world that Circle, my alter
VHS Diaries
2020
72
'
Decolonising the Archive
Directed by
Niyaz Saghari
.
The filmmaker revisits the diaries she kept during the years when video was banned in Iran. Using her personal VHS archive of films as a point of reference, the film explores a very personal film
Violão-Canção: Brazilian Soul
2016
30
'
Directed by
Chico Saraiva
Rose Satiko Hikiji
.
Following his artistic path, Chico Saraiva meets up with 7 master musicians who share their experiences: João Bosco, Sérgio Assad, Paulo César Pinheiro, Paulo Bellinati, Marco Pereira, Luiz Tatit
Visible Silence
2015
43
'
Directed by
Ruth Gumnit
.
Visible Silence offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Thai tomboys (toms), ladies (dees), and lesbians striving for recognition and acceptance in a traditional Buddhist society. The film highlights
Visual Anthropology Interventions and Climate Change
'
Workshop
Convened by
Mike Poltorak
.
**Interested participants are invited to submit proposals for presentations to M.S.Poltorak@kent.ac.uk** There is a recognised disconnect between publicly available scientific information on
The Visual Scholarship Initiative
'
Talks
.
This session discusses the work of the Visual Scholarship Initiative (VSI), which was started in 2006 by a small group of graduate students at Emory University. It quickly established itself on the
Visual Worlds of Difference
'
Workshop
Convened by
Raminder Kaur
Paul Boyce
.
This workshop will highlight the role of (audio-) visual and participatory arts works in the development of representations that move away from the fixity and/or Othering of identities. Our aim is to
Vivre Riche
2017
53
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Joël Akafou
.
“Rolex the Portuguese” has returned to Abidjan with one mission: to make lots of money. He seeks to emulates the hedonistic lifestyle of a new generation of West African music stars. He and his
Walker's
2018
11
'
Student
Directed by
Kyle Myers-Haugh
.
In this portrait of a historic black barbershop in Wilmington, North Carolina, we witness the everyday rituals that bind the men in this community together. Tight close ups illuminate intimate
Warehouse
2018
8
'
Directed by
Lillian Dam Bracia
S. Buse Yildirim
Constantinos Diamantis
Malwa Grabowska
.
Warehouse is a meditative ethnographic short film. Warehouse is a place where sound moves the objects. It is an intimate encounter in the cosmos of objects, sounds and textures where carpenter
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1988
58
'
Lifetime Achievement
Directed by
J. Stephen Lansing
Andre Singer
.
The Way I See Today
2016
46
'
Directed by
Antonia Gama
Márcio Gomes
.
The critically-acclaimed film City of God (2002) is a fiction film based on a novel about a real place known as Cidade de Deus (City of God), located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through the
We Belong to the Earth
2015
30
'
Directed by
Ramona August
.
The establishment of the first intentional communities stretches back over two millennia ago, with notable examples such as the ancient Greek commune based on vegetarianism and equality of the sexes
Welcome Reception
'
Gala event
Convened by
RAI FILM FESTIVAL
.
Join us for a reception to welcome our guests and to celebrate the start of the festival. All welcome. Sponsored by Wiley.
What your eyes can’t see
2018
8
'
Shorts
Directed by
Julieta Pestarino
.
An essay-documentary that explores the processes of archival research, and the limits of the kind of knowledge it can provide. Pestarino pursues photographer and traveller André Roosevelt into the
Who says the lepchas are vanishing (Bang the Drum)
2019
42
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Abhyuday Khaitan
.
A tribute to Sonam Tshering Lepcha, cultural leader and creator of songs, literature, dances and a museum of the Lepcha people of north-west Bengal and Sikkim (India). His life has been devoted to
A Wind of Change
2019
72
'
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
A Wind of Change 72 mins Segesta Production UK/IT Toni de Bromhead Unlike most films that one sees, this film shows what it really means to live with, and to fight the mafia in Sicily - not
A Woman's Story
2015
52
'
Directed by
Azra Rashid
.
A look at genocide, survival, and physical and cultural continuity through the eyes of three women who have experienced three different genocides of the 20th century. Shot on location in Canada,
Women in Sink
2015
36
'
Directed by
Iris Zaki
.
At “Fifi’s”, a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa, Iris Zaki installs a minimalist film set over the sink, where she converses with the clients she’s shampooing. She thus paints an
Women of Freedom
2017
58
'
Directed by
Abeer Zeibak Haddad
.
Women of Freedom follows the stories of women who were murdered in the name of ‘honor killing', in the Arab and Palestinian society. This documentary aims to unravel the social and political
Writing on the City
2015
60
'
Directed by
Keywan Karimi
.
With Writing On The City, Keywan Karimi redraws the history of Tehran through its walls, from the Islamic Revolution in 1979 to nowadays. He was sentenced to a year of detention and 223 whiplashes
YEH FREEDOM LIFE / THIS FREEDOM LIFE
2018
70
'
Directed by
Priya Sen
.
Yeh Freedom Life / This Freedom Life was filmed over a year in Ambedkar Nagar, a dense, largely working class area in South Delhi. It moves between the two very different worlds of its protagonists,
Yolngu Homeland
2015
58
'
Directed by
Natasha Fijn
.
An observational film about Yolngu connections with other beings and the land. Garrthalala is a strong homeland community in Arnhem Land, Australia, where all ages venture out onto the coast and into
Yours Truly
2018
15
'
Directed by
Maddi Barber
Charlotte Hoskins
Christopher Murray
.
Yours Truly follows the trail of taxidermic pieces collected by The Manchester Museum during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Archival letters between the museums directors, explorers, and
Zahida
2018
28
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Seemab Gul
.
Zahida is a unique woman in Pakistan: she is the nation's only female taxi driver. This sensitive film provides fascinating insight into the personal and professional trials faced by this strong
Zawawa - the sound of sugar cane in the wind
2017
50
'
Directed by
Rupert Cox
Angus Carlyle
.
It is a strange and bitter irony that the US naval bombardment which launched the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was called the ‘typhoon of steel’, invoking the turbulent winds that annually buffet
on-sea
2016
20
'
Student
Directed by
Hatty Bell
.
on-sea is a portrait film about the small community that lives on the Bush Estate at Eccles-on-sea, Norfolk. It is a film about landscape, and how people interact with it through day-to-day minutiae
A very Dai Girl
2018
27
'
Student
Directed by
MengHua Zhang
.
This film quietly observes her daily life of Xiao Yue, a bright 22-year-old young woman from Yunnan province in the South of China. We see Xiao Yue cook, care for her grandmother, sew, and farm - but
The world is round so that nobody can hide in the corners – Part I: Refuge
2017
10
'
Student
Directed by
Leandro Goddinho
.
The first instalment in a series of shorts that explore LGBTQ+ experiences across the globe, envisioning a queer diasporic community. In Refuge, we hear the moving account of a young man forced to
The world is round so that nobody can hide in the corners – Part II: The Kiss
2017
5
'
Student
Directed by
Leandro Goddinho
.
The second instalment in a series of shorts that explore LGBTQ+ experiences across the globe, envisioning a queer diasporic community. The Kiss stages an act of public sensuality at the Gay Holocaust
‘Making of’ Anthropology on TV
'
Workshop
Convened by
Evie Wright
.
Filmmakers working with the BBC Natural History Unit will describe the practicalities of all the various stages of production – from the development of an idea with which to approach commissioners,